Wednesday, July 9 at 6PM Join us on BookPeople's third floor for the MysteryPeople Double Feature Film Series! All screenings are FREE & open to the public! As part of our celebration of International Crime Fiction month, we bring you Purple Moon, Rene clemont's 1960 version of Patricia Highsmith's novel The talented Mr. Ripley. This classic of deception and stolen identity differs from the novel more than the 1999 film version but is arguably more complex and interesting. Check Our the Full Summer Screening Schedule! All screenings begin at 6PM. 6/25 - Double Indemnity 7/9 - Purple Moon (Based on Talented Mr. Ripley) 7/23- The Long Goodbye 8/6- Devil In A Blue Dress 8/20 - Winter's Bone

Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita, Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives in the form of an alluring suburban housewife.

Discussion of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. On a trip to Europe to convince a wealthy man’s son, Dickie, to return home, Tom Ripley becomes quickly obsessed by the beauty and excitement of Dickie`s life abroad--and by Dickie himself. (rsterling)